SDN Children’s Services Hiring for Recruitment Team Leader Job at Australia Full Time

A career at SDN is much more than a job

Discover how you can make a real difference to the lives of children and families when you join our village of professionals committed to enhancing children’s lives.

When you join our village, you’re joining a not-for-profit organisation with over 115 years’ experience supporting children’s wellbeing. It’s an enriching village centred around children and supported by partnership and community.

We are one of Australia’s most respected children’s services organisations, and have over 650 staff across 37 sites in Sydney, regional NSW and the ACT. We also have therapists who support children with autism or a developmental delay, and can help overcome the challenges that can make everyday life and participation tough for children.

About the team

The Human Resources team is committed to attracting, developing, supporting, empowering and retaining a committed and skilled diverse workforce to achieve SDN’s strategic outcomes. The team also fosters a healthy and safe work environment to enhance the wellbeing of our employees and ensures efficient and accurate payroll processing.

You will be joining our HR team of 12, leading a team of 2 in recruitment. We are a close knit, diverse and down to earth team. We are passionate about what we do and we work really well together. We are led by a highly experienced Head of HR who is consultative, supportive and hands on.

About the role

You will provide support and training to SDN managers to enable them to achieve their recruitment needs and initiate and implement various innovative recruitment strategies to ensure an efficient and continuously improved recruitment process.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage the end to end recruitment function
• Monitor recruitment processes and ensure compliance with SDN’s policies and procedures
• Determine the best and most cost effective sourcing strategies
• Build and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure recruitment KPI’s are met, number of vacancies and recruitment costs are contained
• Manage and supervise the recruitment team of 2

This position will be based at our brand new Shared Services office in Ultimo/Glebe with hybrid working arrangements available.

This is a full time permanent position.

About you

• University qualifications in a related discipline and/or extensive relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience dealing with high volume recruitment
• Sound judgement with the ability to give accurate and timely advise on recruitment policy and practices
• Demonstrated experience with competency-based selection practices
• Demonstrated ability to build constructive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong communication skills with the ability to liaise and influence people at all levels
• High attention to detail with the ability to prioritise
• Current drivers license and own comprehensively insured car
• A Working with Children’s Check clearance number

Our Culture

SDN’s values are at the heart of everything we do. If you share our values and believe that through working together we can make the world a better and more equitable place then we want to hear from you! We commit ourselves to being: trustworthy and reliable, inclusive and respectful and creative and innovative.

SDN Benefits include:

• Supportive and welcoming working environment within a for purpose organisation
• Priority placement for children of staff members
• Working with a team of professionals who have extensive experience and knowledge gained through our 115 + year history of supporting children and families
• Discounted child care fee
• Paid parental leave
• Rewards and Recognition Program
• Learning and development fund for each staff member
• Finders fee – Referral Scheme
• Employee Assistance Program – Free, voluntary and confidential counselling service
• SDN Staff Giving Fund
• Purchased Leave
• Study Leave
• Picnic Day – One extra day paid leave for all permanent staff

View the position description via the link below or copy and paste into web browser:

https://www.sdn.org.au/media/3315/recruitment-team-leader-may-2022.pdf

To Apply:

Please apply via the link below.

SDN Children’s Services welcomes and encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.


Successful applicants will be subject to relevant pre-employment checks including Working with Children Check (NSW), National Police Check and Covid 19 vaccination in line with government regulations.